Economic Control & Trade
Clue: The economic system where Great Britain controlled colonial trade to gain national wealth and power.
Answer: What is Mercantilism?
Clue: A valuable crop, like tobacco or rice, grown on large farms purely to sell for money rather than for the farmer to eat.
Answer: What is a Cash Crop?
Clue: The main geographic reason why American colonists had to develop their own local traditions of self-government.
Answer: What is because Great Britain was 3,000 miles away across the ocean?
Clue: According to John Locke, freedoms like life, liberty, and property that every human is born with and no government can take away.
Answer: What are Natural Rights?
Clue: What Great Britain accumulated after winning the French and Indian War, causing Parliament to start taxing the colonies.
Answer: What is a massive national debt?
Clue: The three-sided ocean trade route that moved raw materials, manufactured goods, and forced human labor across the Atlantic Ocean.
Answer: What is the Triangular Trade?
Clue: A labor system where poor Europeans signed contracts to work without pay for 4 to 7 years in exchange for passage to America.
Answer: What is Indentured Servitude?
Clue: Created in Virginia in 1619, this was the first elected lawmaking assembly in North America.
Answer: What is the House of Burgesses?
Clue: The political agreement where citizens obey laws in exchange for the government protecting their safety and rights.
Answer: What is the Social Contract?
Clue: What happened to European indentured servants after they completed their 4 to 7 year labor contracts.
Answer: What is they were granted their freedom (and could earn land)?
Clue: Strict British laws passed by Parliament that banned colonists from trading directly with rival European nations.
Answer: What are the Navigation Acts?
Clue: Large Southern farms created because of warm weather and rich soil that relied on forced labor to grow cash crops.
Answer: What is the Plantation System?
Clue: Signed by the Pilgrims in 1620, this agreement established direct democracy and majority rule in Plymouth Colony.
Answer: What is the Mayflower Compact?
Clue: The British law passed by King George III that banned American colonists from settling west past the Appalachian Mountains.
Answer: What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
Clue: The major difference between indentured servitude and slavery regarding time and legal status.
Answer: What is indentured servitude was temporary by contract, while slavery was permanent lifelong ownership as property?
Clue: Under mercantilism, the 13 colonies shipped these cheap, unprocessed natural resources (like timber, cotton, and tobacco) to British factories.
Answer: What are Raw Materials?
Clue: The brutal and dangerous ocean voyage across the Atlantic that brought millions of kidnapped Africans into lifelong slavery.
Answer: What is the Middle Passage?
Clue: The unofficial British policy of ignoring trade laws for over 100 years as long as the colonies stayed loyal and made money.
Answer: What is Salutary Neglect?
Clue: The main reason King George III issued the Proclamation Line of 1763 following the French and Indian War.
Answer: What is to prevent costly military conflicts between settlers and Native Americans?
Clue: According to John Locke, what citizens have the right to do if a government breaks the social contract and takes away their natural rights.
Answer: What is to change, overthrow, or rebel against the government?
Clue: British factories manufactured colonial raw materials into these expensive items and sold them back to the colonies for a profit.
Answer: What are Finished (or Manufactured) Goods?
Clue: The primary reason slave ship captains packed kidnapped Africans into crowded, dangerous, and unsanitary conditions below deck.
Answer: What is to transport as much human cargo as possible to maximize profits?
Clue: A system of government where citizens vote for leaders to represent them and make laws on their behalf.
Answer: What is a Representative Democracy?
Clue: The main reason colonists protested new British taxes passed by Parliament after 1763.
Answer: What is because they had no elected representatives in British Parliament ("Taxation Without Representation")?
Clue: The sudden shift in British policy after 1763 that ended over 100 years of colonial trade freedom and self-rule, sparking the revolution.
Answer: What is the end of Salutary Neglect?